Torchwood



The Torchwood Institute (or "Torchwood" for short) was an organization founded in 1879 to protect Great Britain from extraterrestrial threat and also to secure alien technology for Britain. Under the later leadership of Jack Harkness from 2007 onwards, it had a more ecumenical agenda of protecting the world.

Torchwood operates in cells, London being Torchwood One, and Cardiff being the home to Torchwood Three, the maverick organization led by Capt. Jack Harkness. At least two other Torchwood cells were known: Torchwood Two, based in Glasgow, Scotland, and a Torchwood Four, the nature of which was unknown except that it had some how gotten "lost". Torchwood 5 was based in India and led by the Duchess of Melrose, which was disbanded in 1924, but later continued until 2009.

Torchwood is considered to be "outside the government and beyond the police". Indeed, it was different to most British institutions in that it was created by royal decree and was funded directly by the Crown. The royal hold over Torchwood was later demonstrated when HRH Queen Elizabeth II closed down Torchwood One following the Battle of Canary Wharf.

However, it was explicitly not "above" the government. HRH Queen Victoria ordered: "Torchwood is also to administer to the Government thereof in our name, and generally to act in our name and on our behalf, subject to such orders and regulations as Torchwood shall, from time to time, receive from us through one of our Principal Secretaries of state.

Playing a Torchwood Sim
Players of a Torchwood Sim would take on the role of members of the Torchwood Institute. There are many types of people that Torchwood would recruit and could hold the positions that include but are not limited to:


 * Team Leader
 * Weapons Specialist
 * Medical Doctor
 * Computer Specialist
 * Administrator and General Support
 * Physicist
 * Strategist
 * Police Liaison

Current Sims in the Torchwood Genre
((None at this time))